Ebay Buyer Beware

[hovis09]

you need to do your homework when buying an unknown record on ebay. last week 16/6/2013 an acetate was advertised as unknown artist on a virtue acetate called i'm walkin' and sold for $1009 decent record but was infact capt.jesse fountain i'm walkin on cameo parkway still a decent record but worth an awfull lot less .it seem lately that there are a lot of unknowns for sale perhaps if advertised as such it could be posted to see if anybody does know what it is.This may stop some poor person spending $1009

[Pete S]

you need to do your homework when buying an unknown record on ebay. last week 16/6/2013 an acetate was advertised as unknown artist on a virtue acetate called i'm walkin' and sold for $1009 decent record but was infact capt.jesse fountain i'm walkin on cameo parkway still a decent record but worth an awfull lot less .it seem lately that there are a lot of unknowns for sale perhaps if advertised as such it could be posted to see if anybody does know what it is.This may stop some poor person spending $1009

 

We know this, there was a topic about it last week where it was identified well before the end of the auction

[hovis09]

sorry mate must have missed that

[Pete S]

sorry mate must have missed that

 

Found it

 

[John Reed]

you need to do your homework when buying an unknown record on ebay. 

 

Saying that, you need to do your homework before buying any record, let alone an "unknown" whether it be on ebay or not.

[Guest penny]

you need to do your homework when buying an unknown record on ebay. last week 16/6/2013 an acetate was advertised as unknown artist on a virtue acetate called i'm walkin' and sold for $1009 decent record but was infact capt.jesse fountain i'm walkin on cameo parkway still a decent record but worth an awfull lot less .it seem lately that there are a lot of unknowns for sale perhaps if advertised as such it could be posted to see if anybody does know what it is.This may stop some poor person spending $1009

There's absolutely nothing 'poor', in either sense of the word, about someone who bids over $1000 for a record without knowing what they're bidding on. It's not the responsibility of the seller to know anything other than what's printed on the record.

[Kevinkent]

There's absolutely nothing 'poor', in either sense of the word, about someone who bids over $1000 for a record without knowing what they're bidding on. It's not the responsibility of the seller to know anything other than what's printed on the record.

 

But if he's still listing it as "unknown artist" having been informed who the artist is?  That's not right.

 

 - Kev.

[Guest penny]

But if he's still listing it as "unknown artist" having been informed who the artist is?  That's not right.

 

 - Kev.

He didnt say it was unreleased, or that the artist is unknown to everyone, that's an impossible claim to make so it's implied that it's just unknown to him. It's not 'nice' but then maybe he doesn't feel obliged to be nice to foolish buyers so desperate for something new to outdo their nerdy mates that they bid $1000 for this dud. The phrase tough shit springs to mind, buying records is so easy nowadays any idiot can build a decent collection, you cant hold peoples hands through it even more.

[Kevinkent]

He didnt say it was unreleased, or that the artist is unknown to everyone, that's an impossible claim to make so it's implied that it's just unknown to him. It's not 'nice' but then maybe he doesn't feel obliged to be nice to foolish buyers so desperate for something new to outdo their nerdy mates that they bid $1000 for this dud. The phrase tough shit springs to mind, buying records is so easy nowadays any idiot can build a decent collection, you cant hold peoples hands through it even more.

 

Nah,.........he's implying that it's unknown, and not just to him, knowing that a fool and his money are easily parted IMO. And if the artist is made known to him then he should alter his description and be honest about it.

 

  What am i saying!.....we're talking ebay and Northern soul  

 

 - Kev

[Pete S]

There's absolutely nothing 'poor', in either sense of the word, about someone who bids over $1000 for a record without knowing what they're bidding on. It's not the responsibility of the seller to know anything other than what's printed on the record.

 

Have to agree with this, doesn't matter if you're spending £10 or £1000 on a record, do the research!  If I was contemplating buying something like that I'd be putting variations of the title into search engines, asking other people if they'd heard of it etc.  

[Mark Jones]

I hadn't heard it before and quite liked it so bought it for £25!

[Guest son of stan]

The Ebay seller put audio on the ad. So they were hardly being shady.

 

Amazes me that someone went crazy enough to pay $1009 for this having actually heard it. Even if it were a one off....those army overtones...really corny.

Edited June 25, 2013 by son of stan